Since it was established in 1988, Spicer Consulting has built a world-wide reputation in magnetic field cancelling for Scanning Electron Microscopes and similar instruments.

Today, working with equipment manufacturers and users alike, the company is recognised as an industry expert in maximising the performance of electron microscopes, electron beam lithography systems, CD metrology and focussed ion beam tools.

Spicer Consulting magnetic field cancelling systems protect sensitive equipment in the world's leading laboratories, universities and semiconductor manufacturing plants, as well as in the test facilities of electron and ion beam equipment manufacturers.Its magnetic field, vibration and acoustic analysis systems have been adopted as standard equipment for the conduct of site surveys by leading equipment manufacturers. The company's expertise in the design, development and manufacture of electron beam lithography systems for the semiconductor industry is internationally recognised, led by the founder Denis Spicer who holds a number of patents in the field.

Spicer Consulting's sister company,  Pope & Meads , has been manufacturing critical components for electron beam instruments since the mid 1960's.In 2009 Spicer Consulting branched out into biotechnology, commissioning the  Algenuity  Laboratory within Spicer Consulting’s Eden Laboratory in Stewartby.